Originally posted by AllNoles:It's interesting that Gene has talked with Chip and compared notes, has heard from contacts at UA and others, but still we have almost nothing from within FSU. I don't say that as a shot to Gene, but to point out that however much other logic there is out there, nothing happens if our leadership sits on its hands. And I have not seen anything in the last 5 years to suggest we will do anything but sit back and maybe react to things. I am very worried that while there may be options out there, we won't take advantage of even looking into them.

Don't assume that because I don't specifically mention talking to an FSU source or sources that I haven't. I have spoken to a couple people tied into the program for some of this information. And I'll add that for the first time there is legitimate talk among the decision makers that the ACC may not be in FSU's long term best interests.

Fair enough. I was not assuming you were not taking to anyone at FSU. I was simply assuming that if you were, there was nothing you could report about yet. To me, that was bad news. Very bad news.

It's great to hear our leadership is finally at least reasliizing there is a problem. However, it is mind boggling that it's taken this long to realize that. That our leadership crapped on the idea of leaving, bad talked the B12 when the issues were being floated, and never apparently even reached out to find out what our options might be. Whether looking now or not, our leadership on all this has been crappy. Whatever FSU's long term goals last summer, there is NO excuse for not having at least been talking with the B12 and even the SEC. Public statements like the ones we made, which did not just publicly support where we are (which I understand everyone does, even while negotiating their way out) but went so far as to set up the arguments for why we have no interest in going anywhere, served absolutely no purpose other than to further isolate FSU and limit its choices.

I hope to hear more and more about our administration actually DOING SOMETHING about this crisis rather than hear that they are always late to even realize there is a crisis. But, I have to say I am not optimistic.